Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 25, 2003 with Judge Fred L. Banks, Jr. (born 1942). In the late 1960s, Judge Banks began his law career by serving for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was elected three times to the House...

A collection of interviews with African Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

Photograph of freshmen students studying the Miss Southern Handbook. The caption reads, "Nail biting, humming, or cheating won't help. Freshmen girls must know the first verse of the Alma Mater for the Miss Southern Handbook test or else..." This...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...

From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Analysis of Senate bill 2988, the Internal Security Act of 1968, introduced to the Senate by Senator James Eastland. Thomas I. Emerson, professor at Yale University, deciphers the bill and its effects on all...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The horizon line of the cartoon is the curve of the earth, with Paris and the Eiffel Tower on the horizon and Vietnam in the foreground. A giant megaphone with a hammer and...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is sitting on a stool looking down at a map of the United States. His chin is in one hand, elbow on knee. With his other hand, he holds a paper that reads, "Labor Day...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Candidates for president in the 1968 election are swimming in a lake labeled " '68 presidential swim." Above the lake, Ronald Reagan stands on the limb of a nearby tree preparing...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. In the foreground is the corner of a large building with columns, labeled "Law, justice, decency among nations." In the distance is a small tent surrounded by men using whips and...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. President Lyndon Johnson, looking dismayed, is portrayed as an automobile mechanic working on the engine of a high performance race car labeled "Lyndon Johnson special." A number...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam and two young boys are looking at a poster attached to the wall of a brick building. The poster shows a fighter jet and has the words, "New! 1968 supersonic Mirage jet...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A bird labeled "Czechoslovakia" is trying to fly, but a man's hand has caught hold of the bird's tail feathers and is preventing flight. The sleeve of the man is labeled "USSR."...